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Idea: a world where it's possible to transfer a wound from one person to another. If a product injures you, the court forces the manufacturer to take the damage. Liability insurance companies have a lot of cannon fodder on the payroll. Don't work for a company without insurance.

Variant: the injury can be transferred retroactively, so that the plaintiff never gets the pain and suffering at all. You wake up one morning with a broken arm, and know that you're going to lose a lawsuit.

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Nowadays this is done with financial injuries and criminal liabilities, which makes your idea a good starting point for social commentary.

Reminds me a bit of the magic in "Magic to the Bone" (et al.) where spells exact a price, but that physical injury can be visited on an involuntary victim. There's a resulting class of PIs whose job is to figure out the source... including, of course, the protag.

Nowadays this is done with financial injuries and criminal liabilities

Right. The "make it didn't happen" variant has the advantage of actually preventing harm; but it has the problem that you're punishing someone for something they would have done. Like Minority Report, except with a court in the loop.